Tag: bitcoin

remember those days? what did you buy with bitcoin when it was worthless? i bought everything from girl scout cookies to VPN services. just trying to be part of a budding new marketplace. crazy looking back. Who’s buying Teslas with Bitcoin? it was almost 5000 the other day. What a ride. . .

It finally happened! I have been mining bitcoins for almost two years now. casually. I joined a pool in the last year (after 6 months of nothing) I am not trying to make a living with this, I just had an OpenCL card in a system that is already on 24/7. I wanted some BTC to play with. I had a bet with myself once the tiny earnings from the shared pool started to come in. Would I earn 50 BTC with the pool before finding a block? In a shared pool, you don’t collect the blocks you mine, but instead share in the blocks of all contributing members. Blocks originally were worth 50 BTC. Just recently, the payout was reduced to 25 BTC for a block. This is particularly funny because I had already mined approximately 35 BTC with the shared pool before I finally hit up on a block. Obviously I squeaked out a victory in my little experiment, but it is really just a roll of the dice.

Their recents exploits include hacking FBI affiliate Infragard (Atlanta Chapter). They defaced the website, stole account information, and messed with their users. Particularly Karim Hijazi of Unveillance. LulzSec alleges that Karim (in a chat on IRC) offered them money and information to hack and his competition in the security industry. This kind hypocritical behavior is specifically deplored by hackers. Hijazi’s company email was posted online and in LulzSec’s official statement they threaten the release of his personal email as well. LulSec started taking donations with BitCoin. They used some of the money to pay for servers and their “lulzsecurity.com” domain which appears at present to be down.